# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-scharlieb
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:26:09.892Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-scharlieb"
name: "Mary Scharlieb"
slug: "mary-scharlieb"
description: "Dame Mary Ann Dacomb Scharlieb, DBE was a pioneer British female physician and gynaecologist in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. She had worked in India. She was the first female student of medicine at Madras Medical College. \nAfter her graduation and work in India, she went to England to do her Postgraduation in Medicine (gynecology) and by her persistence she returned to the UK to become a qualified doctor. She returned to Madras and eventually lectured in London. She was the first woman to be elected to the honorary visiting staff of a hospital in the UK and one of the most distinguished women in medicine of her generation."
tagline: "British physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Scharlieb_c1875.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1845-06-18"
deathDate: "1930-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476314666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Mary Scharlieb"
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    title: "ماري شارليب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "மேரி ஆன் டகாம்ப் ஷார்லீப்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "മേരി ഷാർലീബ്"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Scharlieb"
    title: "Mary Scharlieb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump